Norwegian Wood (2020+)
HaandBryggeriet (Norway) in Drammen, Buskerud, Norway 🇳🇴
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Score
7.10
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can at home. I’d had older year buckets but not newer. Amber pour smaller sized head. Nose is smoky and woody. Tatses of cedar, dried woood, campfire smoke, dark breads. Odd palate and lingering finish
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can, best before Jan 10, 2028, drunk Oct 21, 2025.
Light haziness. Soft-toned cherry-amber-beige. Small, well-retained, butter-colored head.
Fruity-sweet, smokey and peppery with dry wood smoke not the bacon and salt of Bamberg. The fruitiness is lovely, lending a pleasant cherry-like character to balance the dry smokiness and spicy black pepper phenol. Very clean and polished, doesn't seem intensely malty.
Big malts up front, mostly texturally, with only moderate sweetness. It dries out with woody smoke, big pepper phenol and fruity cherry. The big, chewy texture never leaves, though, and it ends with lingering, satisfying maltiness.
gave a cheers!
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 7
Can. Pours clear hazel, merlin beige head, good lacing. Aroma is light smoke, caramel, malt earth, toffee. Flavor is light smoke, light plus sweet, light plus bitter. Merlin body.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
440ml can, #1677, bought at Vinmonopolet Trondheim Torg. Bubbly, off-white head, near-clear amber body, crocheted lacing. Smoked malty nose with a little spicy bite. Similar solid taste of smoked malts offset by dried fruits and lightly spiced. Lingering smoked malty ending. Well bodied. Likeable. (Hotel room, 02.08.2024).
3-29-24 HC&B
DSG (25977) reviewed Norwegian Wood (2020+) from HaandBryggeriet (Norway) 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
[2/18/23] Draught at Dok Brewing in Gent. Clear brown. Malt, wood, smoky, meat, sweet, bitter finish.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
3 March 2023. Sudden Death TTO @ Hal 16. Cheers to Anke & Pieter!
A: clear red, very thin, off-white head.
A: raisin, redcurrant, tobacco, juniper, brambleberry.
T: sweet raisin, sourish juniper & redcurrant, (BBQ) herbs.
F: herbal hops, berries, smoke & burnt wood.
P: medium body, slick texture, average carbonation.
Nicely smoky & fruity, very autumnal.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Amber with off white head - Smoked malt aroma - Smoked malt body - Smoke linger for a long finish - This was nice
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled.Hazy amber colour with a mediumsized slightly off-white head. Aroma is smoked wood, mild toffee, some rye bread and juniper as well. Flavour is smoked malts, some wood, juniper and some slight rye bready tones. Very pleasant.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
26/XII/22 - 44cl can from De Hopduvel (Gent), shared @ home, BB: 3/XII/24, #1604 (2022-1772)
Clear red brown beer, small creamy off-white head, unstable, falls down quickly, a bit adhesive. Aroma: nice wood smoke, lovely, bit malty, a little yeasty. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: nice, very smoky, bitter, a bit malty, more smoke, some banana. Aftertaste: smoky, malty wood notes, camp fire.